“How We Got This Way” is the first of several new singles I am releasing in 2023.
I used to work with magazines and newspapers, I ran a record label, and I worked in record stores. Now those wonderful things are shadows of what they used to be.
New things have taken their places without replacing what they were.
Sure, I can still release music, design things and read articles, but what does it all mean if it isn’t tangible? So many of our shared experiences have been moved out of the physical world and onto small screens.
It’s hard to tell the difference these days between something disposable, something valuable in the ether, and something that doesn’t exist at all. And with that, here is a new song that is available digitally.
If you don’t have two bucks, you can save the song on your favorite music services.
Track listing:
1 / How We Got This Way (3:45)
Credits:
Guitar, vocal: Scott Ritcher
Bass, lead guitar: Pat McClimans
Drums: Bernardo Yacono
Produced by Scott Ritcher and Pat McClimans
Mixed and mastered by John Kennedy in Nashville, Tennessee
Photo by Marta Moosie Streng
Lyrics:
The money comes in and I spend it
That’s what money is for
I’m drinking my best bourbon on a Tuesday
For all we know tomorrow’s not anymore
How we got this way I’ll never know
All the newspapers shut down
And civility was the next to go
Tell me what’s the point in going home
When I’ll just sit there alone
We used to buy music hand to hand
In a way that you could carry it home
I held that record in my hands
And I put it on
The songs were new, about love and loss
And unity and fate
Now the world’s on fire
And none of us are safe
